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This page is very difficult to read so I broke it down here:
Angel Pilago:
3396 Absentee Mail Votes
6903 Absentee Walk-in Votes
17206 Election Day Votes
27505 Total Votes
Billy Kenoi:
6752 Absentee Mail Votes
9676 Absentee Walk-in Votes
20934 Election Day Votes
37362 Total Votes
If you want to see how other races fared, you can check it out here.

On September 24th I was Polled by SMS research about which candidates I was voting for and I blogged about it here.

This was the second time that SMS polled me. The first time they polled me, the results of that poll were published within 2 weeks.

I have not seen any results of the second poll that they polled me on. I wonder if this is because in the first poll that SMS conducted… they had Kenoi with a slight lead… so the Tribune did report on it, however, it’s in their archives now, but I did blog about it here.

Why has the second SMS Poll not been published? Is it possibly because Pilago was in the lead in the second poll and the Tribune is pretty much a Union based paper that has endorsed Kenoi?

Dr. Weatherford made a comment which reminded me about this second poll here where he states:

…Did you see the poll in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald and the West Hawaii Today?
No? Neither did I. hmmmm… wonder why?

In my previous poll on the TMT about whether people are in favor of having the TMT on the Big Island, out of 24 votes cast so far 83% are in favor of it… 20 Votes for 3 Votes Against and 1 undecided.

Now that readers of my blog see that there is actually an option for the TMT to be located elsewhere besides Hawaii, the numbers are quite different on my most recent poll as to where it should be located, the results are much closer:

So far, 35 votes have been cast. 17 prefer Mauna Kea and 18 Prefer Chile, just ONE vote from a dead heat.

I would imagine that these stats might even be a bit stretched since a few supporters of the TMT project have blogged about this poll to their readers on their blogs here and here, yet I haven’t read any bloggers that are against the TMT pointing towards my poll.

To me, it makes it even more astonishing that people are either changing their mind on this project, or I just have a different set of readers participating in this poll compared to the first one.

I just noticed that a worldwide survey was conducted… unbeknown to many of us here on the islands I would assume because I never heard about the survey before today:

A worldwide survey to select the best locations for astronomy research has narrowed the number of potential sites to two: Cerro Armazones in Chile’s Atacama Desert and Mauna Kea on Hawai’i Island. Each of the candidate sites has conditions that are essential to astronomy: very clear skies, very stable atmospheric conditions above the mountaintop, and low humidity.

So I decided I would run a my own poll. I’m curious where I could find the other poll listed above though?

Where would people like this Thirty Meter Telescope to be if there is an option?

And just as I asked on my previous blog about where they were going with the Union Activity… they answered it here:

“People not belonging to a labor union provided 77 percent of the poll answers”

You see the thing is with these people that are calling and giving these polls, the majority of the time people don’t care to talk to them… thus the only people that respond to these phone polls are people that have an interest in the poll.

I find the polling device used by SMS pretty flawed… and I can only say this, because I was recently questioned by them. (They had no way to verify if I was even the resident of the house or just some joe-blow picking up a random phone call at this house… as I’m not listed on the phone number they called)